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20806 [lbo-talk] Energy article on Spiked -- rank: 1000

Eubulides wrote: >Please don't perpetuate the stereotype of the Luddites! They half deserve it for focusing on the machines and not the social relations. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 13 16:15:37 PDT 2004

20807 [lbo-talk] O'Reily sued for harassment -- rank: 1000

[hmm looks like the No Spin Zone is about to get spun pretty hard] <http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackris1.html> O'Reilly Hit With Sex Harass Suit Female Fox coworker details lewd behavior of cable TV star OCTOBER 13--Hours after Bill O'Reilly accused her of a multimillion dollar shakedown attempt, a female Fox News producer fired back at the TV star today, filing a lawsuit claiming that he subjected her to repeated instances of sexual harassment and spoke often, and explicit ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 13 15:40:01 PDT 2004

20808 [lbo-talk] more polls - ignore if phobic -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS POLL: CAMPAIGN TRACKING #9 - 10/12/04 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004 Dead Heat in Presidential Race on Eve of the Final Debate The presidential contest narrowed to an absolute dead heat in the latest ABC News tracking poll, further raising the stakes for the third and final debate tonight in Arizona. Heading into the candidates' final face-off, 48 percent of likely voters support George W. Bush, 48 percent John Kerry and one percent Ralph Nader. The race has ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 13 14:29:43 PDT 2004

20809 [lbo-talk] run OS X on your Windows machine! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,65323,00.html/wn_ascii> Now, for Your PC: Mac OS X By Leander Kahney A Hawaiian company specializing in streaming video claims to have developed a $50 software emulator that allows a Windows PC to run Apple Computer's Mac OS X. Maui X-Stream on Tuesday announced CherryOS <http://www.cherryos.com/>, a virtual PC that mimics the hardware of a G4 Mac. The company said it is already working on a stand-alone version that cuts out Windows XP. A stand-a ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 13 12:39:08 PDT 2004

20810 [lbo-talk] Ruy Teixeira's latest -- rank: 1000

[poll-o-phobes, delete & move on - Ruy Teixeira's latest analysis - for more, see <http://www.tcf.org/4L/4LMain.asp?SubjectID=4&ArticleId=738&TopicId=7>] On the eve of the third and final presidential debate, it's a good time to take a step back and assess how the race has changed since very late September-that is, since right before the first debate. At that time, Bush was running a consistent lead over Kerry though, as I argued repeatedly, the magnitude of that lead was likel ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 13 11:38:11 PDT 2004

20811 [lbo-talk] killing insurgents -- rank: 1000

<http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/000172.html#more> Seymour Hersh spoke at Berkeley last Friday, October 8th. He told a story about recently receiving a call from an American lieutenant in Iraq who'd just witnessed other American soldiers killing non-combatant Iraqis. I typed up what he said from the Real Video file here. The story begins at about 41:45. UPDATE: I'm told Hersh has said much the same at other events, including this October 1 appearance on the Diane Rehm Show. I hav ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 13 11:26:19 PDT 2004

20812 [lbo-talk] Re: Paris Hilton update -- rank: 1000

jimi ayler wrote: >actually, doug, i'm glad you're still able to keep us, >uh, abreast of these critical socio-cultural >irruptions -- and i don't mean mt. st. helens, neither >-- what with gawker.com being down, and all... It's back up. Thank god. Today's Mediabistro media news feed reports: At 10:17 AM -0400 10/13/04, <newsfeed at mediabistro.com> wrote: >GAWKER JUMPS THE SHARK? >Eric Wolff: After years as the biting monarch of the gossip world, >Gawker.com may have ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 13 11:11:06 PDT 2004

20813 [lbo-talk] Taibbi on Will -- rank: 1000

Matt Taibbi on George Will, from the second installment of "Whimblehack," his competition to see who the worst political journalist in America is: "Will uses big words and pompous literary references to dress up what are basically the brutish and vulgar thinking patterns of a non-union meat-packing plant owner. He is a pig in a lace hat." More of this excellent stuff at <http://nypress.com/17/41/news&columns/taibbi.cfm>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 13 11:00:49 PDT 2004

20814 [lbo-talk] Re: Nader and his detractors -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >And those political realities were NOT created by electoral politics. > >You have just given the main reason that ABB non-politics are so >obstructive to the development of a left in the u.s. What a bogus opposition. There's no reason one can agitate during an election season, and have a nonelectoral focus at other times. Ideologue, deconstruct thyself! Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 13 10:27:41 PDT 2004

20815 [lbo-talk] Nader and His Detractors -- rank: 1000

Yesterday afternoon, I recorded an interview with Tariq Ali, who was visiting NYC, which I'll broadcast during the WBAI fundraiser, Oct 28. He reiterated his emphasis on the importance of defeating Bush (which means electing Kerry) - and dismissed Ralph in the harshest terms, using words like "juvenile" and "narcissistic." He said he got lots of emails responding to his last appearance on my show, in which he emphasized the importance of defeating Bush (which means electing K ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 13 10:25:33 PDT 2004

20816 [lbo-talk] tax breaks won't create jobs -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - October 13, 2004 Tax Windfall May Not Boost Hiring Despite Claims Some Companies Plan to Use New Break on Foreign Profits For Debt and Other Needs By GLENN R. SIMPSON and GREGORY ZUCKERMAN Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- Big companies long lobbied for a tax cut on their overseas profit as a way to spur U.S. job growth. But now that it has been granted, much of the windfall won't go toward hiring but for such uses as strengthening balance sheets, buy ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 13 10:21:04 PDT 2004

20817 [lbo-talk] Paris Hilton update -- rank: 1000

[from Page Six, of course] PORN AGAIN? A LONDON tabloid claims to have obtained a third Paris Hilton homemade porn tape. The News of the World reports that the sizzing sequel contains the most explicit erotic action yet, including Hilton enjoying a steamy romp with "the daughter of a world famous pop star" and having sex with two men at the same time. A source tells the tab: "It's the most explicit stuff Paris has done yet. It's unquestionably Paris in all three scenes and she see ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 13 09:01:47 PDT 2004

20818 [lbo-talk] Re: Derrida still dead -- rank: 1000

John Bizwas wrote: >1. First of all, could we try and raise the intelligence levels of >thread titles? Think about it, thread titles are the face an >archived discussion list presents to the google-searching world. >(It's just me trying to be funny, sorry.) If you contribute something to a thread, you can always change the subject heading. Complaining about the non-action of others isn't always very productive, rather like complaining about others' failure to take up an issue. >2. ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 12 19:55:17 PDT 2004

20819 [lbo-talk] James Baker, smooth operator -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20041101&s=klein> James Baker's Double Life by NAOMI KLEIN [from the November 1, 2004 issue] When President Bush appointed former Secretary of State James Baker III as his envoy on Iraq's debt on December 5, 2003, he called Baker's job "a noble mission." At the time, there was widespread concern about whether Baker's extensive business dealings in the Middle East would compromise that mission, which is to meet with heads of state and ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 12 19:51:01 PDT 2004

20820 [lbo-talk] Derrida's politics -- rank: 1000

Michael Ryan posted to the cultstud list: >Probably the most interesting thing I ever heard him say was at a >political meeting at the Sorbonne once. He began with "Je parle en tant >que communiste. . ." That was enough to make this crypto-, retro, PM >communist love him dearly. But then I already did. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 12 17:49:24 PDT 2004